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THE USE AND ABUSE OF INSERTS 189 Lord Cornwallis: Am now within forty miles of Charlottes- ville. Thomas Jefferson and the entire Vir- ginia Assembly will be my prisoners today. Tarleton. As we know, a letter will sometimes be written by a character in one scene, but the audience will not learn its exact contents — though they may know just about what he is writing — until a scene or two later when the letter is delivered to and read by the one to whom it is addressed. On the other hand, we sometimes see an actor write a letter, immediately after which, as he reads it over, it is flashed on the screen. Then, later, we see it delivered, but although the one receiving it is seen to read it, it is not flashed upon the screen again, because the audience has already been shown what it contains. But it sometimes happens that more than one letter enters into the develop- ment of the plot at a certain point, and hence there may be some slight confusion caused by the audience not know- ing which of two letters the player is supposed to be read- ing. It is to avoid this confusion that producers generally flash a few feet of the letter a second time, simply to identify it. Thus, if the letter that Tom wrote to Nelly in Scene 6 is delivered to her together with one from her friend Kate in Scene 8, you may write: Postman hands Nelly two letters. She regis- ters delight upon noticing handwriting on one envelope. Opens it immediately and reads: